Unsealed docs show Planned Parenthood charged $25G for body parts, blood samples within months
Planned Parenthood needs to be shutdown forever for engaging in abortion for the purposes selling the dead baby’s parts for profit. It is clear that those exposing PP were correct in their statements on the issue. Planned Parenthood’s vile scheme to blame their accusers has been completely exposed.
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Recently-unsealed documents reveal Planned Parenthood charged a biospecimen company nearly $25,000 for fetal tissue and maternal blood samples in 2012, fueling accusations from opponents that the nation's largest abortion provider violated federal law while exchanging fetal body parts.
The invoices were unsealed as part of Planned Parenthood's lawsuit with David Daleiden, the pro-life journalist whose undercover videos prompted both state and federal calls for investigations. According to the invoices, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte charged StemExpress $55.00 per "POC," or products of conception -- another term for fetal remains -- and $10.00 per sample of blood.
Three invoices -- dated Aug. 2, Sept. 5, and Sept. 28 -- show the abortion provider charging $5,860, $11,365, and $7,715. That totals $24,940, along with more than 200 POC's.
Daleiden argues that the disclosure reveals Planned Parenthood clearly violated federal law, which only allows reimbursements for associated costs rather than for the body part itself.
Planned Parenthood has defended itself by claiming that its charges related to transportation and time spent by staff. The invoices don't mention either of those, however, nor do they contain the word "reimbursement."
Instead, they assign a fee per body part. Specifically, the previously released contract between those organizations showed that the exchanges were based on "POC determined in the clinic to be usable."
Planned Parenthood did not provide specific comment, but pointed Fox News to a more generic backgrounder on Daleiden. "Planned Parenthood has never, and would never sell fetal tissue, and any claim otherwise is absurd," the document reads . It previously announced that it wouldn't accept payments for its fetal tissue program, with its president arguing that doing so should put to rest concerns about Planned Parenthood having "any financial interest in fetal donation."
StemExpress, which promises "financial profits" in its brochure , handled all of the services for which Planned Parenthood might legitimately seek reimbursement under the law, Daleiden argued. He pointed to a House Select Panel report suggesting that Planned Parenthood was engaging in "double counting" costs like transportation. Instead, it indicated that the group's costs were "more properly assigned to the middleman procurer or the end user researcher."
On Wednesday, Daleiden told Fox News: "The federal law against selling aborted fetal organs and tissues in exchange for 'valuable consideration' was enacted to prevent monetary incentives to turn children in the womb into a commodity. The law lays out the unmistakable difference between a researcher reimbursing a clinic for used up PPE, versus StemExpress paying solely for the number of 'usable' body parts it could collect and then sell from Planned Parenthood's abortions.
"Planned Parenthood and StemExpress's business relationship -- sadly not unique to them -- sets quotas for certain types of abortions, treats pregnant women like a cash crop, places a price tag on human beings, and declares that our nation's children are worth more dead than alive," he said.
His comments echoed those of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson, who said her clinic in Texas had quotas and sought to "turn every client interaction into a revenue-generating visit."
"This is literally what I have been saying for years," Johnson said, responding to the invoices. "They are charging. They have just been line item-ing it under different wording...transport, handling, processing, etc...when the process for handling the POC after an abortion isn't any different.
"You either throw it in a biohazard bag that stays in the clinic or a styrofoam container that goes to the procurement company," she added.
StemExpress did not respond to Fox News' request for comment. The company's contract with Planned Parenthood specifed that POC's include "any fetal organ or other fetal or placental material taken from the human uterus during an abortion." It also outlines "reasonable costs" for things like the removal of fetal organs, disposal services, and "appropriate space for in which Stem-Ex representatives and employees may work."
According to Daleiden, those payments violate federal law because they're tied to the usability of extracted body parts rather than merely serving as "associated" costs for handling organs. An email between BioMax, the fake company used by Daleiden, and StemExpress similarly shows StemExpress emphasizing the need for "only viable" fetal liver specimens.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the organization, although it's unclear how it's proceeded since 2017 when it first made headlines. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
Planned Parenthood has repeatedly tried to discredit Daleiden as a fraudster who deceptively edited his undercover videos of employees discussing fetal body parts.
"David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress intentionally waged a multi-year illegal effort to manufacture a malicious campaign against Planned Parenthood," the group said last year.
One of its officials added : “This group’s false claims completely fell apart upon closer investigation, and they’ve been exposed as part of an extreme political agenda to outlaw abortion in this country."
Fusion GPS, the controversial D.C. firm involved in the notorious "Steele dossier" during the Trump-Russia probe, reviewed the videos and claimed they did not "present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict." Last year, an appeals court contradicted Planned Parenthood's narrative, arguing the videos were "not deceptively edited."
A judge awarded Planned Parenthood $2 million in November as part of a civil lawsuit with Daleiden. He's currently facing criminal charges in a prosecution initiated by Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., when she served as California's attorney general. More specifically, the state is charging him under an anti-eavesdropping law. Five of those charges were dropped by a judge who ruled that "there is an absence of probable cause to establish that these conversations were 'confidential communications' as defined by the statute."
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"Planned Parenthood and StemExpress's business relationship -- sadly not unique to them -- sets quotas for certain types of abortions, treats pregnant women like a cash crop, places a price tag on human beings, and declares that our nation's children are worth more dead than alive," he said.
His comments echoed those of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson, who said her clinic in Texas had quotas and sought to "turn every client interaction into a revenue-generating visit."
"This is literally what I have been saying for years," Johnson said, responding to the invoices. "They are charging. They have just been line item-ing it under different wording...transport, handling, processing, etc...when the process for handling the POC after an abortion isn't any different.
"You either throw it in a biohazard bag that stays in the clinic or a styrofoam container that goes to the procurement company," she added.
StemExpress did not respond to Fox News' request for comment. The company's contract with Planned Parenthood specifed that POC's include "any fetal organ or other fetal or placental material taken from the human uterus during an abortion." It also outlines "reasonable costs" for things like the removal of fetal organs, disposal services, and "appropriate space for in which Stem-Ex representatives and employees may work."
According to Daleiden, those payments violate federal law because they're tied to the usability of extracted body parts rather than merely serving as "associated" costs for handling organs. An email between BioMax, the fake company used by Daleiden, and StemExpress similarly shows StemExpress emphasizing the need for "only viable" fetal liver specimens.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the organization, although it's unclear how it's proceeded since 2017 when it first made headlines. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
Not this nonsense again? PP has already been investigated and cleared of any legal violations regarding the "sale" of fetal parts, going on years now. Besides, who cares if PP sells something that would otherwise be disposed of? Donating or selling fetal tissue can be beneficial to medical science and research.
Unsealed documents in discovery come to light showing new evidence of PP criminality. The US Justice Department is not done with its investigation. It is still against the law to kill babies and then sell their obvious human parts for profit.
PP hasn't been charged with anything. So far, it's still just empty accusations.
Of course it is. But that's not what PP is doing.
It's not against the law to donate fetal tissue.
The evidence was always there.
If you have any evidence of murder anywhere, you should report it immediately.
According to the invoices, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte charged StemExpress $55.00 per "POC," or products of conception -- another term for fetal remains -- and $10.00 per sample of blood.
Three invoices -- dated Aug. 2, Sept. 5, and Sept. 28 -- show the abortion provider charging $5,860, $11,365, and $7,715. That totals $24,940, along with more than 200 POC's.
Daleiden argues that the disclosure reveals Planned Parenthood clearly violated federal law, which only allows reimbursements for associated costs rather than for the body part itself.
Planned Parenthood has defended itself by claiming that its charges related to transportation and time spent by staff. The invoices don't mention either of those, however, nor do they contain the word "reimbursement."
Instead, they assign a fee per body part. Specifically, the previously released contract between those organizations showed that the exchanges were based on "POC determined in the clinic to be usable."
The relationship in such transactions has always been that the research facilities pay for the transportation and
special handling of any cadaver parts whether it is a heart or kidney for transplant ( you should the price gouging
there, dry ice is sooooooooo expensive/s) or old people or prisoners who donate their odies to medical schools,
or fetal tissue. Google medical courier services - it's a very lucrative endeavor..
eggcellent cut & paste, you're the best !
Planned Parenthood was paid directly by StemExpress for products of conception
Yes they were, for average special handling, storage and transportation costs, typical of the medical waste industry which includes cadavers and parts for transplants. Donated fetal tissue can only be used for research by Federal law.
If you know someone is killing babies, please call 911
If women are getting legal abortions, not your medical decision, not your problem
Do you have ANY proof that this has happened? Have you called the police to have them arrested for murder?
For SHIPPING. You think it's free to mail anything in this country?
My state has used the virus shutdown as a way to stop abortion. Calling it elective surgery so not allowed.
That's such bullshit
As it should be everywhere. All the PPE’s , masks, other protective gear all needed elsewhere. Why should abortion be the only elective surgery allowed now? Also the people working there it would do them good to do something to preserve human life for once in their lives rather than terminating it all the time.
Sounds like a case of one person's word against another.
Not all abortion procedures require invasive techniques which might require the use of PPE. So there's no good reason to stop such procedures.
What an arrogant statement! Who are you to determine what would be good for someone else?
Agree. It is not like there is that large of a window either.
It shouldn't be. I should be able to go buy baby parts at the grocery store, [Deleted]
But guns and churches somehow are, right? Not sure how you put up with it.
You are aware that abortions are only 3% of what PP does, right? They also do counseling, cancer screenings, women's health issues, family planning, etc..
I doubt they care about any of that. All they hear is "abortions."
As long as any group of people insist that they were made in the image of a god, thus making their existence and lives somehow more important than any other life form on earth, there will be protests over abortion and everything related to it.
you can count on it as surely as you can count on tomorrow's sunrise.
this is why certain religious people should be barred from access to any medical technology that results from research science they disagree with.
Made me think, I wonder what some of these people think of the Christian scientists that deny their children medical attention.
By God all fetusi have to be taken to term yet then they have the right to deny those kids medical care and let them die.
I don't even know if I could call than irony.
But if they needed a transplant.....
I worked with a few, one lost an eye, another had his face ripped open in an accident and refused treatment
one lost a child to appendicitis. Truly sad.
Another couple I hired in SC, were firm believers until their kid was sick - then they hightailed it to the ER.
Made me think Catholicism wasn't too insane.
It really is sad. Things that are easily curable. These kids that are already in this world don't get a choice and I don't see these right to life people sticking up for them. Ask a ten year old if he wants to die from something preventable and I am sure the kid would 'choose life'.
An 18 YO high school classmate died in childbirth tied to a door which had been removed from its hinges while members of her church stood round praying. She was then butchered to deliver a son. He has issues. Lots of emotional issues. Last I heard he was in prison.
Shall we pray to our Father Creator?
So you use Christian Scientists as an example but what about Dr. Ben Carson? A leading surgeon and in the sciences yet his church is as he pro creation and yet they have an education and hospital system that is quite advanced second in size to the Catholic Church around the world. Several other Protestant denominations also have education and medical facilities so the whole concept that Christianity doesn’t use education and science is simply ridiculous.
I really have no clue how some of the most mentally defective cults feel about organ donations/transplants. I have it checked on my DL, and if given a choice, I would have checked the except born again bible thumpers box too. who am I to delay the meeting with their savior, my mission in life would be to get them to the front of that line as soon as possible.
I am an organ donor as well.
Im.a donor too. Either for harvesting and/or for medical science. I figure med students might have some fun poking around my innards. And if nothing else, grind me up and turn me into canned dog food. Lol
my preference is made clear. I wouldn't want to interfere with the will of their creator.
Actually, it is his choice. Many states have "directed organ donations," where a donor can specify who may receive their organs after death. The specifics of directed donations is covered under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) and many states have theit own laws based around UAGA.
I referenced UAGA for you. A donor can stipulate a recipient for organ donation. A donor can also specify which organs can be procured. It even covers donation for medical research. Did you even bother to research my citation for yourself? Or are you just trying to argue?
He can select a person who might be a non-christian to receive his organs. Or he can simply donate to medical science so christians do not get his organs. So yes, he is able to make a choice. Saying it's not his choice is demonstrably false.
Good.
If that's what you think I'm doing, then don't bother replying. Problem solved.
I responded to your post. Just like you did to me. That's what happens in a public discussion. Don't like it? Tough! The fact that you accuse me of being "condescending," cursing, or don't understand the points made only shows you really are just arguing. Don't get mad at me for your own failings as a debater.
You can stipulate who gets an organ but not a class of people on a waiting list for the organ who can’t have it.
I can only think of one of my organs some bible slapper might be interested in, but somebody would first need to relabel it as coming from a teenage boy after harvesting it.
Probably the same something you like to talk about a lot, that speaks volumes..
That is what I said.
Then take that up with him.
The claim made was that he has no choice as to whom his organs go to. That statement is demonstrably false.
You're the one whining about it, not me.
The tone of your posts suggests otherwise.
Going to be tough to get the people who still believe the tapes of PP were misleadingly edited by Live action to incriminate PP (no matter what a Court of Appeals says) to deal with reality. They believe in the inerrancy of PP press releases. PP's diehard supporters are basically allergic to fact and reality and prefer the narrative the billion dollar company feeds them.
👍👏You got that right. Well put!
The same can be said or pro-lifers/anti-choicers who buy into the allegations against PP too.
I am not allergic to facts, I just find it very amusing that women you don't know, aborting a fetus you would never even meet is such a problem for you. Honestly, because people like you bitch about it so much, I want to keep it going.
I mean, aside from the fact that PP does a hell of a lot more than abortions and is infinitely more useful to young mothers than all christian groups combined.
Ok, ok. I admit it.
I have been secretly buying stem cells and fetal tissue. I scarf it down as fast as I can get it. I also slather it on my face to combat wrinkles.
Oh wait. I didn't say that. Seems my transactions were off the books.
The smoking gun seems to be regular invoices for disposal and the like.
Quick, better inform Barr and the justice department. They seem to be slacking on the job...
Gov. Whitmer Says Abortion Is 'Life Sustaining' and 'Politics Is Everything Right Now'
Source: Michigan Office of the Governor via AP
Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer is rumored to be on the shortlist of possible running mates for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which is a good thing for the governor since Michiganders appear poised to throw her out of office at the earliest opportunity. Like her potential running mate, Whitmer has botched some recent interviews; not by forgetting where she was or who she was talking to but by saying things she actually believes, like "politics is everything right now" in the middle of the coronavirus and that abortions are "essential" because they are "life sustaining." For whose life, exactly, the governor did not specify.
"It's hard to campaign and talk about politics right now," Gov. Whitmer began innocently enough. "But politics is everything right now. Who's in office mattered."
To be fair, it does matter who's in office. Whitmer's potential running mate, Joe Biden, was busy calling the president "xenophobic" when Trump moved early on to restrict travel from China, a decision that Dr. Fauci and other health experts have credited for minimizing the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S.
Gov. Whitmer is facing opposition after extending her stay-at-home order through the end of the month and imposing additional restrictions. On Wednesday, thousands of protestors descended upon the streets of Lansing in a vehicle protest over the governor's decision to keep the state closed.
Speaker of Michigan's House of Representatives, Lee Chatfield, said there was nothing more American than people exercising their constitutional rights to petition their government. Speaker Chatfield said he trusted the protesters to exercise safety while also exercising their constitutional rights.
On Thursday, Trump unveiled federal guidelines for states to begin reopening in phases as the severity of the disease diminishes in a state-by-state basis.
Dr. Oz 'misspoke' calling opening schools 'appetizing' despite COVID-19 mortality rate increases
Dr. Mehmet Oz says he "misspoke" making controversial comments where he advocated the opening of the nations schools despite the trade-off of an increase in the total mortality rate.
In a video posted on Twitter Thursday, Oz said he realized "my comments on risks around opening schools have confused and upset people, which was never my intention. I misspoke."
Oz made the comments Wednesday speaking with Fox News' Sean Hannity about steps the country could take in re-opening following the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
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"First we need our mojo back," Oz said, calling school openings "a very appetizing opportunity."
He cited a British medical journal, The Lancet, that argued "the opening of schools may only cost us 2% to 3%, in terms of total mortality."
Ahhh, so once again planned parenthood is butchering babies and selling their body parts. Guess I need to go make another donation!
That's what pro-lifers/anti-choicers would have you believe.